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happy birthday dan! awesome.

saw these guys open for KMFDM in the Fall. it was weird. for me it was a little too much shouting, not enough untz. KMFDM brought the untz later though. me: Phish 2009-10-31, Set III. Festival 8, 24/96 SBD.

don't feel too crazy, I can attest the 3GS speaker is MUCH louder then the 1st generation iPhone speaker.

John Coltrane - One Down, One Up: Live at the Half-Note mccoy tyner, jimmy garrison, elvin jones

antibiotics and a shot in the butt. they say thigh but it's the butt! feeling much better already after two weeks of a crappy sinus infection.

ok! here is another thought on pricing of digital media after reading the NYT article and thrice's comment. at what point is a dinosaur of an industry only hurting itself by setting a price so high to cover the expenses of a dying operation? reading about the NYT wanting to set a monthly price of $30 to help pay for it's print side makes me want to turn my mouth around and eat my own brain. same thing with a music industry broken by piracy and a poor product. so maybe apple and it's $.99 a song price point was correct. hard to deny it's success. I guess my whole point in harping on this mess is maybe it takes somebody who understands the market better to tell the manufacturer "you need to sell it for x, and if that doesn't cover your costs then you need to cut your costs." I would think that such a situation would encourage market innovation rather then industry stagnation. yes, I'm still approaching this from a consumerist perspective. I want low prices, damn it.

thanks Dan and Nate.

ok, so talking free markets, competition, etc. as a consumer I always admired the amazon model of "you want us to move a shit ton of product? we will at x price." this felt very free market to me, as opposed to the Grado method of "sr225 for $200, sell for less and you get none to sell." I understand the reasoning behind both methods, but to call the amazon/kindle or original apple/iTunes method arbitrary... isn't the Grado method just as arbitrary? is it the manufacturer or the distributor that can better read the market?

you all make excellent points. I certainly wasn't thinking long term in terms of the market and competition.

That is a freaking awesome deal for the HF-2. If I was Todd I'd be selling them for like $20 off, not over a hundred. Been listening to my HF-2 a lot lately. I let my friend borrow them for a few weeks, was kind of a nice way to see how much I missed them when they were gone. I moved the CDP-2 into the headphone rig temporarily, so awesome the effect a source upgrade has.

no, I am just trying to be hyperobservant about my feelings towards the iPad. more then any other apple product before it, I think I am aware of the strong apple-pull Jobs's pitch has on me, when here is a product I think I have absolutely no practical use for, but then at some point between the announcement and 6 months after release I decide I must have one. Resisting this effect, for me, is like quitting smoking. It's devious the effect Apple and nicotine have on the brain. Periodically I have these epiphanies about the type of computer user I am. Yesterday I was loading up a USB stick with MP3s for use with my car stereo. Since I built this new computer a couple months ago, I didn't bother transferring over my iTunes library, since its just an MP3 duplicate of a chunk of my FLAC collection. So here I am using foobar to convert certain FLACs to MP3s, and am about to start adding them to my iTunes library, just so I can get that nice automatic folder organization, when I decide not to. Instead I realize it would be easier for me to have each album in an individual folder on my USB stick, so instead of I:\ween\all request live its I:\ween - all request live; this way I can easily glance at the windows explorer shot of my USB stick and see everything I have on there without clicking through other directories. So I completely avoid having to mess with iTunes which makes me happy for some strange reason. But then I realize its not strange, because I just hate proprietary. I just hate getting locked into using any one companies software, specifically for my music, but I'm also realizing I hate it for things that are slowly becoming increasingly important, like phone apps. I have started to enjoy downloading FLAC albums direct from the artists web site, not only because it saves me a few bucks, but also because it supports the artist directly. I wish the iTunes store did lossless, but at the same time I know it would just be freaking ALAC, just one more barrier between me picking up my shit and leaving if/when I get sick of using iTunes (assuming I decided to use it one day). But my biggest current gripe is Apple's indirect role in making eBook prices go up, literally just months after I bought into the idea via the Kindle. Now honestly I'm more pissed at Amazon for not cowboying up and being more slick about the whole affair, but Apple's control on certain markets it enters cannot be denied. Now I mostly read older books, so maybe the price increase won't have much of an effect on me. Time will tell. Point is I was going through this labories process of ripping my FLAC to MP3, creating little directories and dumping the MP3s into them, then using a utitility called DriveSort, which sorts files on FAT32 hard drive system in alphabetical order so that more primitive operating systems (like the one in my car stereo) can list them that way, and I just realized I was enjoying myself. I really liked what I was doing. So yeah, I guess what it comes down to in this great debate is that I'm a tweaker, I like to be able to do my own research to fix the PC world's flaws, and I like being able to have a little control, even if it means sacrificing a great deal of convenience. At least, thats how I feel today. And it is impossible to deny the positive impact products like the iPod and iPhone have had on my life...

just thought i'd hop in here to say that today I don't like apple anymore. we will see who wins the struggle tomorrow.

fuck yeah. Neal Casal - Roots and Wings

Internet Archive: Free Download: Lotus Live at The Note on 2009-12-30

another 12er of 5-hour energy.

woke up, still sick (something sinusy), studied accounting, went to store, bought oranges and romaine and roses, presented to GF, who isn't a rose kind of girl, but I figured every once in a while what girl doesn't like roses on Valentines? (her other present was some PortaPros for her Zune) friend came over, helped him with his accounting homework, the three of us watched this gnarly Bernie Worrell documentary, watched cartoons on fox.

awesome CD, actually made me start a Boards of Canada Pandora station that day. a bunch of great stuff came up.

Mike, how was Furthur? is Bobby keeping it together? I caught Drive-By Truckers two weeks ago in Mobile, last weekend it was Umphreys McGee, sold out show at the Tabernacle in Atlanta. great energy, great music, worst fans I've ever encountered. no respect, totally selfish. I've seen jackasses at other shows but nothing like the douchebaggery I witnessed at Umphreys. Trey band in two weeks!

do they have pinch and zoom capability in the web browser? thats all I need.

Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country EP

so glad to see multitouch has made it to a non-iphone.

happy birthday man!

love that one. 23 Skidoo - Urban Gamelan man this is awesome. its wonderful when I try out a new record and it just fits right where I am.

Public Image Ltd - Second Edition

Ween - The Pod